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There’s also a pen review posted today 🙂 (click on images to see larger) At the comic shop yesterday, I’d start out drawing one thing, then get sidetracked into something else. For example, for some inexplicable reason, I started out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Remember fisherman Felix? click to see larger/clearer: I’ve substituted this pen occasionally for the 03 Micron when drawing the comic. I’ll have to dig around through the pen cases to see if I have the soft-tip and dual (grey/black) versions.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

The Kuretake No. 7 Brush Pen was recommended as a less-expensive (US$7.00) alternative to the Kuretake No. 13, which comes in at four times the price; the esteemed sable-hair No. 40 (which costs…a whole lot more); and the illustrious sable-hair-probably-gently-plucked-from-the-underbellies-of-unicorns[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Since I used a different pen to write the body of the mini-review, I changed it to blue after scanning to distinguish it from the brush pen samples. click to see larger: Although the Kuretake pens are probably the best[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

click to see larger At the comic shop last Friday, I worked on commissions and—probably because I was in a comic shop surrounded by comics and paintings of superheroes—several of the sketch cards took a turn toward the superheroic. A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Thank you for your patience as the “mid-July” return of the comic turns into an August start. For your amusement: my very, very crude first attempt-in-progress at working in encaustics. Encaustic is the wax-based painting method of the Greeks and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

I absolutely love 1950s/early-1960s sword-&-sandals movies. I was surprised yesterday to discover one I hadn’t seen before, called 79 AD: The Destruction of Herculaneum. I KNOW, RIGHT? It’s described on IMDB as “Intrigue at the Roman Emperor’s court prior to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

…will be a double set for Friday night. Sorry for the delay, again. I’m worn out! Tomorrow I’ll be inking at Carmine Street Comics during the Jack Kirby Birthday celebration, so if anyone is in the area, stop by for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

I’ve been interviewed about the Blues! Check it out–and a lot of other great articles about things historical: A Quiet Word With: Roman Webcomic Author @spqrblues. I got started reading other pages and lost an afternoon. I’m currently inking the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…